Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes, 1st Edition, Inscribed.
Signed and Inscribed by Frankfurter to Eustace Percy Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes. New York: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1947. 29 pp. Cloth, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, presentation inscription from Frankfurter to front free endpaper. $650. * First edition. Reflections was the Sixth Annual Benjamin N. Cardozo Lecture delivered before the Association of the Bar on March 18, 1947. The inscription reads: "For my dearly beloved / Eustace Percy, / as a messenger of affection / from his silent but devoted / Felix." Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy [1887-1958], Baron Percy of Newcastle, was a distinguished diplomat, politician and educator. Frankfurter and Brandeis met him, as well as Arthur Balfour, in Paris in 1919 to discuss the future of Jews in Palestine.
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